It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

When I have them working together, it's like a beautiful kaleidoscope.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

I don't try to please when I play. I try to cure.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it.

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life.

It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.

Its Barnum & Bailey world just as phony as it can be, But it would't be make-believe if you believed in me

You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and you realize you didn't know. It's infinitely rewarding.

New Year's Day probably is not going to work. And one of the main reasons it's not going to work is that the Rose Bowl is on New Year's Day, and it's not moving.

Twisted Sister plays 20, 25 shows a year. But if the band had their druthers, they'd be out playing all the time.

We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.

We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.

Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

And when things are not going well in Toronto, you're going to hear about it. And you're going to say things are not good at all, where it's really not that bad.